By Tina Spee Manatt, Phelps & Phillips lured three corporate attorneys to its ranks in September, nabbing partner Mark L....

By Jason W. Armstrong SANTA BARBARA - Since the judicial seat up for grabs in Santa Barbara County appears to be a criminal as...

By Draeger Martinez The American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the most prestigious attorney groups in the nation, drew hu...

By Amy K. Spees Workers' compensation Administrative Law Judge John C. Gutierrez and Deputy District Attorney Laura F. Priver...

By Blair Clarkson Experience has taken center stage in many of this year's Superior Court judicial runoff elections, and the ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Rod S. Berman and Elizabeth Barrowman Gibson - Nowhere does summary judgment play a ...

Column - By Philip Carrizosa - What do we make of Anna S. Ho? Ho is the Los Angeles immigration judge who was reversed yet aga...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cristina Leann Schultz in 2001 was a freshly minted Stanford Law School grad who didn't even have a bar card ...

Forum Column - By Simon A. Cole and William C. Thompson - Like every other state, California has a database containing the DNA...

Letters to the Editor - I am former counsel for one of the four defendants involved in the Butler case mentioned in David Carr...

NEWPORT BEACH - Prosecutors' statutory rape case against Gregory Haidl is in trouble. The supposed victim, who said the sex wa...

SAN DIEGO - Baffled insurance industry lawyers Friday questioned why state Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi subpoenaed th...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco has done away with the remaining challenges to a voter-approved ban on legho...

WASHINGTON - New federal rules eliminating the so-called double taxation of attorney fees in discrimination cases went into ef...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Tina Spee - As voters prepare to engage in the democratic process at polling places across th...

SAN JOSE - A Northern California district attorney last year won $110,000 in damages against one of his own felony defendants ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Note to new dads: Make sure you're the real father before you start spending like one. In a case of first impr...

By Amy K. Spees Two nurses from Santa Monica claim they're being stonewalled from collecting a $96,862 judgment that they won...

SAN FRANCISCO - With one inadvertent click of the mouse, a prominent gay rights lawyer has fueled the worst conspiracy theori...

By Jason W. Armstrong Mudslinging doesn't seem to be an issue in the race for the only Riverside Superior Court judgeship in ...

By Claude Walbert Faced with a bleak financial picture for San Diego, voters for the first time in 12 years are closely follo...

By Amy K. Spees Deputy state Attorney General Gustavo "Gus" Gomez and Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Lori C. Jon...

By Erik Cummins Meyers Nave has elected former Oakland City Attorney Jayne Williams head of the public-agency law firm. Willi...

By Draeger Martinez Certification by Orange Superior Court Judge Ronald L. Bauer in an unpaid-overtime lawsuit against the Cl...

By Blair Clarkson In the hotly contested judicial runoff between Superior Court Referee Daniel Zeke Zeidler and Deputy Distri...

LOS ANGELES - Turning the corner from 3rd Street onto South Los Angeles Street, in the heart of downtown's Skid Row, 33-year-o...

Closer Column - Law Firm Management - By Sharon Berman - There's no doubt that thoughtful, strategic marketing works. However,...

By Susan McRae A juvenile court referee and a county prosecutor will face off Nov. 2 for Office 18, an open judicial seat in ...

By Tina Spee During an evening rich with history, Hogan & Hartson celebrated its 100th anniversary with a reception at do...

By Donna Domino Marin County public interest attorney Faye D'Opal and prosecutor Paul M. Haakenson will compete in a November...